Women Deliver pushes for an increase in information and service delivery to more girls via mobile phones. Image by DFID.

Women Deliver 2013 ended last week in Kuala Lumpur and key takeaways from the conference are beginning to appear on Twitter. For those unfamiliar with Women Deliver, it is a “global advocacy organization bringing together voices from around the world to call for action to improve the health and well-being of girls and women.”The conference is supposedly the largest global event to focus on the health and empowerment of girls and women. Melinda Gates, Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton were among the many notable speakers.

At engageSPARK, we strongly believe that mobile technology has the potential to empower women and improve girls’ health all over the world. An easy to use, flexible, do-it-yourself SMS and Voice platform can assist local NGOs to develop better information interactions, data collection initiatives and mobile surveys, which are rising in popularity as mobile penetration in developing countries continues to increase. VillageReach, a toll free maternal health hotline in Malawi, is a great example of how mobile is improving women's health. Mobile phones in particular allow many women – previously unreachable due to their location in remote villages and social status – to gain access to vital community service programs. Because rural women tend to have higher illiteracy rates, voice calls to reach these women are critical.

Women Deliver is an organization that is dedicated to generating political commitment and financial investment for fulfilling Millennium Development Goal #5 — to reduce maternal mortality and achieve universal access to reproductive health. We at engageSPARK are advocating for even more investment and focus on mobile technologies as a way to inform and thus reduce maternal mortality rates. In fact, this will be one of the key campaigns that our solution will enable NGOs to implement easily and quickly. We hope the next conference will have more sessions about mobile technology as a means to fulfill MDG #5. We're even happy to host a session!

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